Feed-trough



(ModeL) W. ANDRUS.

FEED TROUGH.

No. 388,520. x Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR Tm BY J ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\V'ILIJAM ANDRUS, OF REEDSBURG, \VISCONSIN.

FEED-THOUGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,520, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed January 27, 1888. Serial No. 262,100.

To all whom it may concern.-

7 Be it known that l, \VILLIAM ANDRUs, of teedsburg, in the county of Sank and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and Improved Feed and Drinking Trough, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved drinking and feed trough, and has for its object to provide a receptacle from which dry or wet food may be fed to stock with economy, and which may be readily and conveniently kept clean, and wherein also the water will be protected from dust and the weather.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through the trough. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 00.1 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a similar section on line 9 y of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention the body COllsists of a bottom, A, end standards, A and A of which the standard A is the highest, outwardly inclined low side pieces I B, and a central transverse partition, B of a height equal to the height of the end piece A. Into the approaching face of the end standard A and intermediate standard or partition B the side pieces (6 of a feed-hopper, C, are tenoned, rabbeted, or otherwise secured, the aforesaid standards being thereby made to constitute the ends of the hopper. The lower ends of the hopper side pieces are converging and elevated a distance above the bottom of the trough, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and are provided at the top with hinged lids 1), adapted to conjointly cover the entire top of the hopper, the said lids being provided with a hook, cl, purposcd to engage an eye, (6', in the sides of the hopper, whereby the lid or lids may be held in a vertical position when the hopper is to be filled and the contents during the operation be more or less protected from the weather.

By the construction it will be readily seen that the dry feed placed in the hopper will be emptied in the trough between the standards (Model.)

A and B as rapidly only as consumed, and that the animals in feeding, which may be accomplished from either end of the trough, can not waste much and most assuredly cannot injure the bulk of the feed.

An outer partition, d, is provided to support and strengthen the hopper, which partition is adapted to the outer contour of said hopper, and is attached thereto in any approved manner. The side pieces I ll are beveled or ehamfered upon their inner face; but this is omitted where they engage the partition.

An additional partition, (1, is employed, adapted to the inner transverse contour of the hopper and to an engagement at the base, if preferred, with the outer pa rtition, which partition is adapted to supportthelids and prevent them yielding should any animals by chance step or walk upon them.

Between the intermediate standard I; and the end standard A the space I is utilized as a compartment for wet feed, and is specially adapted for feeding swine, and to one side of said compartment a box, E, is hinged having a closed top provided with a hinged door, 0, inwardlyinclined front end, 0, and a central longitudinal partition, 0*. The box l l when in its normal or closed position is spaced from the bottom of the trough and prevented from being raised by buttons or pins 71, pivoted on the top, being entered in recesses in standards B and A As the box E is of less width than the width of the trough, the animals may feed in front of the box without difficulty, and the bottom of the trough in the compartment E is given an inclination forward in order to bring all the food in reach of the stock. All coarse or wet feed is placed in the front poi" tion of compartment E, and all liquid feed is introduced through the door 0.

The central partition and the box, it will be observed, effectively prevent the swine from introducing foreign matter into the bulk ofthe feed or wallowing therein.

To clean the compartment E, the box E is thrown back upon its hinges.

The two sections of the trough may be used independently, if desired. A second movable hopper may be placed in the main hopper to regulate the flow of feed.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A feed and drinking trough comprising a trough divided into two compartments, a hopper supported in one compartment and extending to within a short distance of the bottom thereof, and an open bot tom box hinged at one side of the other eompartment and provided with a door in its top, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a trough, of an openbottom box hinged atone side of the trough and provided with a door in its top, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a feed and water trough, the combination, with the standards B and A the bottom A, and sides B B, of a box, E, having an open bottom hinged to one side piece extending horizontally above the bottom and nearly to the opposite side, a door. 0, located in the top ol'the box, and means, substantially as shown and described. for securing the box in a horizontal position, as and for the purpose set forth.

\VllililA M AND HUS.

Witnesses: l V. A. VYSE, I ll. (1. HUNT.

horizontally above the bottom and nearly to 

